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My Emacs Defaults

Now that I have customised my emacs extensively, the default configuration is quite uncomfortable for me to use. I have a file called my-defaults.el which is the bare minimum I need to make using emacs a pleasant experience. If I have to sit down at your emacs session, I will probably need to cut and paste these into a temp buffer and call M-x eval-region.

I always always use ido and uniquify. Ido makes it so nice for finding files and switching buffers, I now find the default behaviour surprising and sometimes even catch myself waiting for the options to appear.

(require 'ido)
(require 'uniquify)

flex-matching is a given of course, and I don’t like being prompted unnecessarily for new buffers – I’m always creating them.

It should be obvious what most of these do. The most important ones are setting yes-or-no-p to accept y or n rather than forcing me to type yes<RETURN> and removing the toolbar. Actually no, scratch that, these are all important. (Emacs23 has some of these set by default).

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Hey jared,
Thanks for the article on muse I have started using muse to generate the syntax highlighting on my web page. I use the muse-publish-region function as I do not want muse to generate the complete web page.